DARKNESS
Lev Sheinin led the Soviet prosecution team at the Nuremberg Trial (later people would write: a hangman judging hangmen!). When a truck completely accidentally ran over Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and friend of Konstantin Umansky, the Jewish community, not understanding the demands of the time, called for not only the renaming of Malaya Bronnaya Street to Mikhoels Street, but also an independent investigation (the Emperor read in reports), which was to be carried out by the Empire’s best detective Sheinin, a fact that Lev Romanovich found suicidally flattering right until December 1949, when he was dismissed for absolutely juvenile reasons: he was said to “embellish” and to “pursue” headlines. On the wave of this flattery (and few were cl
